COMING THIS FALL
Beyond YouTube: Making Mobile and Internet Movies That Sell
Classes Meet Tuesday Evenings 7-10 PM starting Tuesday, September 23rd 2008
Register for 5 weeks $285 or 10 weeks $385
Location of class:
Hollywood area
100 million times a day, video is being downloaded on YouTube. 100 million videos. Per day. And that’s just on YouTube.
Can YOU do better than YouTube ?
Mobile and Internet film series are the newest cinematic art form, and there is a huge and growing demand for quality content right now. Thousands of videos are posted daily on the Internet but few create interest, excitement, and profit.
In this course, learn to develop, write, shoot, edit, and post the first three episodes of a webisode or mobisode to the Internet or mobile phones.
Instruction emphasizes great stories and great characters. Other topics include overview of the mobile and Internet video markets, generating traffic and hits, revenue-sharing models, and exploiting your work internationally.
The final projects are screened and critiqued in class before an invited audience. Lectures, discussions, and viewing of video clips are supplemented by industry guests, including a viral video expert and a content exploitation expert.
Instructor Frank Chindamo was the first person to teach mobile filmmaking in the
US in 2005.
He is also the President of
www.FunLittleMovies.com, a mobile channel on Sprint, Verizon, iPhones, Motorola and Nokia phones.
FLM’s “Fun funny phone films” are distributed in the
US,
Canada, Europe, Asia (including
China), and
Africa. The company was nominated against MTV for Best Video Producer at the Mobile Entertainment Awards in both 2006 and 2007, won 2 American Cine Golden Eagles, and was a finalist for best short at the Cannes Film Festival. This year they beat MTV and
Orange for The Content Award at
Cannes.
2008 LA SHORTS FEST AWARD WINNERS
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
Window in the Skies – U2
Executive Creative Director Gary Koepke
Agency Modernista!
BEST CREATIVE COMMERCIAL
Dylan Detour – Featuring Bob Dylan
Executive Creative Directors Gary Koepke & Lance Jensen
Agency Modernista!
Client Cadillac
BEST FEMALE DIRECTOR Sponsored by LUNA
The Pond - Director Sonja Phillips
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Travis Pastrana – Driven - Director Leandro HBL
BEST EXPERIMENTAL
Rojo Red - Director Juan Manuel Betancourt Calero
BEST ANIMATION
The House of Small Cubes - Director Kunio Kato
BEST COMEDY
Ripple - Director Paul Gowers
BEST DRAMA
Chief - Director Brett Wagner
BEST FOREIGN FILM
Positive Prognosis (Germany) - Director Peter Ladkani
BEST OF FEST
Haber - Director Daniel Ragussis
